Fredrik Eklund of CORE
Fredrik Eklund is a founding member of CORE Group Marketing where he has been responsible for over $250M in residential sales over the last 12 months. Widely known for consistently obtaining record-high prices for his sellers, Fredrik set all-time price records in 26 downtown buildings in 2007. His unique marketing platform creates maximum property exposure in order to get the highest price in the shortest amount of time. Fredrik sells lofts, penthouses, and townhouses all over the city. He loves working with buyers, often becoming life-long friends with his clients along the way.
Fredrik has a reputation for treating all people – from sellers, buyers, colleagues, and attorneys, to assistants and messengers – with courtesy, respect, kindness and professionalism. He is an active member of Real Estate Board of New York. As one of downtown’s top luxury brokers, Fredrik’s deals have been covered by New York Magazine, The New York Times, Page Six, The Sun, New York Living, The New York Observer and other publications. Top media outlets regularly seek out Fredrik’s insight and commentary on the city’s ever-changing residential market.
New Developments: Fredrik helped develop and sell the Onyx Chelsea, The Emory, The William Beaver House, 290 Mulberry and 52 East 4th Street – all record breaking properties. As Director of Sales for these five projects, he worked closely with the sponsors, architects, design and ad agencies, real estate attorneys and the co-broke community.
International: as Director of International Sales at CORE Group, Fredrik has more international contacts than any other broker. In 2007, he traveled to meet brokerages and buyers in London, Dublin, Dubai, Singapore, Hong Kong and Seoul, and in 2008 to Barcelona, Los Angeles, Stockholm, Cannes, London, Paris and picking up projects all over the Riviera Maya in Mexico. He has an international listing inventory exceeding $200M.
Originally from Stockholm, Sweden, Fredrik studied at the Stockholm School of Economics, and became the head of IT at one of the biggest financial newspapers in Sweden. At the age of 23, he founded an internet company with 45 employees, and went on to work for the investment bank SEB in Stockholm, London, Singapore and Tokyo before finding his home in New York City.
